Cal athletic director Mike Williams has asked the Pac-12 to consider daytime kickoff for the Big Game next week in Berkeley.

The 119th installment of the Cal-Stanford rivalry is one of five conference games Nov. 19 that have not been assigned a kickoff time or television network.

Those could be set as early as Friday morning and as late as Sunday morning.

“I’ve asked if there’s any way they could give us a shove,’’ Williams said Wednesday. “I would hope, based on our conversations, that they would think about us for the day time.’’

ESPN and Fox have the first two selections for the games of the 19th. If they pass on the Big Game, which is likely, then it would fall to one of the Pac-12 Networks’ three broadcast windows (11 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.).

In that case, the conference office would have some sway over the kickoff time.

“We would prefer 2:30,’’ Williams said.

The Bears play Washington State at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. It will be their fifth consecutive night game and seventh overall this season.

Fans have expressed frustration with the schedule, as has coach Sonny Dykes.

Williams, a Cal alum who has been attending home games since the 1970s, noted the challenges posed by playing at night, especially when the Big Game is involved.

He noted that Saturday afternoon games at Memorial Stadium provided his children with their first opportunities to do something on their own – like find a friend or buy a hot dog – because of their familiarity and comfort with the stadium in the daylight.

“It’s challenging for families to do that sort of thing at night,’’ he added.

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.

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